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CombiCycle_Comparator
A Brief Overview
Presentation to
buildoffsite Direction Group
by
Prof. Bernard Williams FRICS
31st October 2018
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Contents
• What is CombiCycle Comparator?
• Brief overview of functionality
• Why CombiCycle Comparator
• 2016-2018 developments – Version 6
• The eclectic pricing system
• The Business Case module
• Discussion
• The major thrust of this presentation is to justify the use of a reliable model for early cost prediction and analysis. This is as much a requirement for offsite construction as it is for traditional methods
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The ‘Comparator’ extension to
• CombiCycle is an existing web-enabled program
• Predicts whole-life cost, sustainability and construction time……
• …….of any building from inception – pre-Stage C
• Applicable from inception to completion
• No separate ‘Comparator’ model
• ‘Comparator’ research project part-funded by UKCES
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The Default Result – Costs
• The Default template – whole-life cost analysis
• This is the Results screen which is available after the user has entered the information about shape and size of the proposed building; the whole-life costs are shown here.
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The Default Result – Sustainability
whole-life sustainability analysis
• The screen can be expanded to show the embodied and in-use energy and CO2 emissions. There is also a Sustainability score based on the Green Guide list of ‘nasties’ and their weightings
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Selecting the Construction Method
• No need to select every item as either modular or
volumetric
• E.g. with volumetric :
• Select spec for all items and then instruct model to
choose volumetric
• This selection can be made at the commencement of the study.Everything
which can be volumetric will become so. Variations to individual items can
be made as you go through the detail.
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Results Page – Volumetric Programme Implications
• A volumetric solution is saving significant time on site. The cost-neutral costing built into the model still allows for savings in Preliminaries and Waste. The latter also reduces the embodied carbon content. Offsite suppliers may enter actual cost data.
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How CombiCycle works- Specification and design details
1. Quantities are generated by the model based on data
entered about probable GIA, number of floors and building
shape.
2. User can amend/adjust these as further information
becomes available
3. V5 has a static database of conventional spec items.
4. V6 has a dynamic database which it is intended will cover all material specification options
5. The user may bespoke the database to his/her own
specifications and level of detail – NRM incorporated in V6
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V6 Analysis structure
• Each material has its own Properties database e.g density, carbon and price.These
properties are drawn down for use in a component evaluation at which point the specific format of the component and its labours are introduced, The quantities and mixes required are picked out from the Design Drivers envelope.
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Why CombiCycle Comparator? Functionality
o Depth of analysis
o Accuracy
o Correct SCOPE (n.b. External Works!)
o Impartial – part of standard system
o Speed of calculation
o Manipulable data
o Totally transparent
o User – friendly
• Users may enter their own values for prices, carbon emissions etc. However they have to declare these amendments and these declarations appear in the audit trail as departures from the system’s data.
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Why CombiCycle Comparator? Content
o Whole-life costs
o Programme time and manipulation
o Embodied carbon
o Sustainability ‘Green Guide’ linked scoring
o Energy consumption by contributing factors
o Onsite v offsite comparison
• What are the options?
• The model provides all the information needed to make a comprehensive comparison between alternative design and construction solutions. The onsite/offsite comparison is an intrinsic feature of the wider model: Comparator is not a standalone model.
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Published Cost Ranges
• Cost consultants do not use these published ballparks when providing advice on alternatives. However some people do so at their peril! Apart from the wide range there is no mention of whether these costs include External works
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Published Cost Analysis – Outline Specification
• These analyses are provided by professional qs’s. But they often don’t get involved with the cost control of the building services – hence this rather vague specification!
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Whereas…..
• CombiCycle gives you a complete priced Schedule of Quantities at Feasibility Stage!
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Priced Schedule of Quantities
• The quantities are pre-calculated within the model and the rates are built up
from first principles i.e. materials, labour, plant, transport, waste, OHP. Users are
presented with this analysis – they don’t have to create it. But they can
interrogate the basis and amend to reflect their own knowledge.
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Price Book Detail – Timber Roof Trusses
• More detailed information for approximate estimating is available in the published price books. In this example two of innumerable options are given leaving the user to interpret the actual specification and cost required to meet the design drivers.
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Choosing the Roof Structure in CombiCycle Comparator
• Following the Roof Trusses example for a moment this is how CombiCycle approaches the prediction of such costs. Here the model has allowed us to qualify the search by selecting the type of pitch and a gable-end design.
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Selecting a Trussed Frame
• The complete range of options will be open to the user in Version 6. Currently there are two options built in and Wood-framed trusses have been selected. This option can be overturned by the users and in the process they can see all the cost and environmental implications of their decisions.
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Design/Cost Drivers – Pitched Roof Structure
• When investigating the Default Survey assumptions users can review the
design drivers upon which the specification, quantities and costs have been
predicated. They can then modify them to suit their own project’s specific
requirements – the model will change the costs and environmental values.
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Capital Cost Summary – Trussed Roof Structure
• The model has analysed the cost and environmental impact of the selected trusses and
design drivers. The price is per m2 of the roof area which is the way such components would normally be costed at approximate estimating stage. Compare this price with the Price Book rate shown above - £29-35 per m2 of roof area..
• Note that the truss itself is the subject of a separate detailed analysis calculating the timber and metal components separately.
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Why this detail?
• Onsite v offsite split of labour
e.g. trusses v wall plates
• Embodied carbon content of materials
e.g wood plates and steel connectors
• Programme time and sequence
• e.g. wall plates v trusses
• The traditional approximate leaves off where CombiCycle
Comparator starts. The user is presented with this level of detail immediately the model is opened up.
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Team Member Contributions from Inception
• The importance of involving all the skills at the outset when key decisions are
being taken cannot be overemphasized. E.g. the Facilities Manager can be
party to decisions taken which will affect his budget/commitments.
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Analysis and modelling of project time and resources
• Works and preliminaries cash flow modelled for time.
• Offsite options compared with traditional for:
• Construction costs
• Preliminaries costs
• Project time
• Project lead-in period (V6)
• Adjustments made for
• Site productivity (V6)
• Acceleration (V6)
• Deceleration (V6)
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Construction Programme – More Detailed
• The model produces a Gantt chart for each solution. It can display the result at any level from Module to individual component
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Whole-life Cashflow Graph
• The whole-life implications of each solution can be displayed graphically. Here the predicted replacement of a major component in Year 20 can be discussed in the context of other options with different capital, lifetime and environmental impacts.
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Project cashflow
•The project cash flow can be displayed in modular format or in elements (as shown here). Finance rates can be applied to these periodic costs and the regular interest payments used in the Business Case calculator (see below)
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V6 Sustainability
• V6 Adjusts the embodied carbon total and Sustainability score for :
• ….the difference between the average recycled/reclaimed content of the material and the bespoke or specified content
• E.g. the CO2e Emissions for a material with a recycled content of 50% against an average of 30% are calculated as less and …
• …the Sustainability score is higher proportionately.
• Data on embodied carbon content of materials is very sparse and mostly limited to typical values for a generic material type. Comparator enables users to interpolate Co2e values for components with a specific recycled or reclaimed content which differs from the norm
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Reinforced Concrete – Embodied Carbon Analysis from CombiCycle Excel
• Although this value is typical for reinforced concrete it will vary extensively according to the type and quantity of cement and reinforcement used. CombiCycle Comparator can predict accurately for any mix or grade….
• …or number of uses!
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Life-cycle Risk Analysis
• This is the result of a live case study looking at the failure times of a specific product. It proves that ‘average’ life cycles are not suitable for use in detailed comparative evaluation. Comparator tracks the critical failure drivers and builds them into the appraisal
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Building Services Cost Curves
• CombiCycle was built originally as a Building Services cost model. All the services costs and values are built on cost curves according to the size of the building under analysis. There are curves for capital and running costs ; however the energy costs are further modified by the fabric specification, controls and consumption drivers.
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Building services cost curves
• This shows how the maintenance cost of the boilers varies according to the
size of the building. All the services have their own calculated cost curves.
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Viewing The Services Results - Detail
• The initial Default Survey has the services costs at this level of detail ; most qs’s don’t have this level of detail at the end of the project.
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Energy consumption – U-values
• The U values of the enclosing fabric are calculated by the model from the specification and thicknesses of the materials selected. If the U values do not comply with current legislation the model will flag this up.
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Predicting Energy Consumption – by Contributing Functions
• The model shows where the energy is likely to be consumed by the environmental services and the whole-life cost and environmental implications of each contributing feature.
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Energy –in-use • The model takes into account ALL the significant
factors normally used in predicting energy
consumption and control thereof, e.g.
• Material k values and thickness
• Degree days
• Time in use – building and plant
• Controls
• Air leakage
• Heat gains
• Etc. etc.
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Links to BIM libraries/web-sites
• Comparator is built to work with both BIM libraries and manufacturers’ website data – provided they are populated with the data required to be imported directly into the program.
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Eclectic Evaluation System (Version 6)- Objectives
• Avoid use of schedules of rates
• Integrate with data on suppliers’ websites and BIM
libraries
• Calculate prices/properties of ‘all-in’ rates used in
approximate estimates (e.g. reinforced concrete
floor slab) from first principles
• Obtain ‘ballpark’ values for new or unusual
components
• The program will not work as a universally applicable product if users have to
continually approach the proprietors with requests to incorporate data on materials/ products not yet in the system. So a method has been develop dto allow provisional estimates of these components to be made by the user pending gathering of further detail.
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Eclectic evaluation system - example using V6 Format
• Version 6 allows the selection of any type of material to fit a module requirement. Here the choice of bricks or blocks is a preliminary filter.
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Eclectic evaluation system - example using V6 Format
• The types of brick (and other materials) available in the system are intended
to be all-embracing. Within each category all the know varieties are
accessible from the model.
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Eclectic Evaluation System - Example Using V6 Format
• The user has filtered out clay bricks.The further options within clay bricks are
filtered here. Further options include the size of the bricks, strengths, surface
finish etc.
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Eclectic Evaluation System - Example Using V6 Format
• Similarly you can select from an almost exhaustive list of cements to create
the mortar – and the same goes for all the conventional building materials.
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The Business Case module
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Conclusion
• We have barely scratched the surface of this
extremely comprehensive program.
• Many thanks for your interest
• Any questions?
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Design Team Consideration • Team meets under project manager
• CombiCycle Comparator Default Survey on the table
• Review design and specification solutions
• For each (? Major) component consider: o Capex
o Energy
o Cleaning
o Maintenance
o Life-cycle replacement
o Sustainability
o Effect on contract period
o and …. In V6/7
o Combustibility!!!!!!!!
• At feasibility stage…
• …before it’s too late
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Re-ordering Programme Timeline – More Detailed
• The user can vary the sequence of construction to explore the effects on the
overall timeline.
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CO2e analysis of reinforced concrete in
CombiCycle
CombiCycle analysis is dynamic and infinitely variable; it can assess:
• Any grade of constituent material
• Any mix of concrete materials
• Any type and quantity of additive
• Any type, shape and size of reinforcement
• Any type and number of uses of formwork
• Any source and volume of water and ….
• …. Adjusts for any proportion of recycling/reclamation
• The same is true for any material either simple or compound.
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Green Guide Assembly with cost analysis from Comparator
• The co-authors of the Green Guide to Specification were on the steering Group for buildoffsite’s Comparator research project funded by UKCES. Here the whole-life cost of a typical assembly from the Guide is predicted by the model. Comparator can also predict a Green Guide rating for any assembly of materials even if not formally accredited by the BRE.